Spam

David Ashford <da5 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
: How many others feel the same? It's your newsgroup - do you want to keep
: Glycosci going or do you want to close it down?
: There is still the occasional nugget amongst the dross and the level of
: spam on Glycosci is not excessive compared to many public and commercial
: addresses.
The problem is that there are few other postings, so the percentage of
spam is rather high.
: Should Glycosci be moderated? We tried before but got nowhere with the
: Biosci administrators. We could try again. Is there a volunteer prepared
: to act as moderator?
I don't think this is necessary.
Aren't there other means to apply? Is it possible e.g. to filter all
postings with 'glycosci' in the subject, which seem to be most of the
spam?
Regards
r.